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Crafting Effective Research Arguments: Insights into Planning, Analyzing, and Synthesizing Ideas

This guide delves into the essentials of planning and proposing research arguments, as well as analyzing and synthesizing ideas. It encompasses strategies for generating research questions, focusing on topics, keeping a research log, and refining ideas through close analysis and prewriting techniques. Additionally, it highlights the significance of synthesis and analysis in the research process, referencing key thinkers such as Benjamin Bloom and Hegel. Prepare to develop structured research proposals and a compelling narrative around your findings.

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Crafting Effective Research Arguments: Insights into Planning, Analyzing, and Synthesizing Ideas

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  1. Chapter 4 ENV: Planning and Proposing Research Arguments &Chapter 12 A&B: Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas Kayla Wallace & Tiffany Harris

  2. Asking Research Questions • Ask yourself: • What are you drawn to first? The words or images? • What is the significance of what you are seeing? • Research Topic • Focus ideas • Ask more specific questions • Research Log • Keep of track of research and sources

  3. Generating Topics and Research Questions • Select engaging topic • Generate questions by responding to rhetorical situation • Consider what interests you about topic

  4. Bringing Your Topic into Focus • Prewriting • Graphic Brainstorming • Webbing • Focus on one subsection • Narrowing Topic • Write topic • Ask questions based on close analysis • Refine topic by answering question • Revise narrow topic – make more specific • Identify significant aspects to explore • Use answers to focus topic

  5. Planning Your Research Through Writing • Develop concrete plan • Freewriting • Three paragraph model • Drafting Research Hypothesis • Drafting a Research Proposal • Background • Methods • Sources • Timeline • Significance

  6. Writer’s Process Answers the Question “So What?”

  7. Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas • Synthesis: “way of seeing and coming to terms with complexities” • Analysis: “break it down into its parts to see the relationships among them” • Benjamin Bloom • 5th of Six Levels of thinking processes • Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation • Hegel – German Philosopher • A thesis clashes with antithesis = synthesis involving both thesis and antithesis

  8. Comparing Arguments http://honjii.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/obamacare2.jpg http://www.randpaulreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama-care-side-effects-1a.jpg

  9. Understanding Analysis and Synthesis • Synthesis Question • Synthesis Essays • Extension of Summary/Strong Response Writing • Features • Statement of synthesis question • Short summaries of texts • Thesis • Analysis of key points • Your new view

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